Theme: truth

The Beast and the Boy

By Book Importer | Published: September 14, 2011

A scary-looking beast and a weak-looking boy befriend each other and, through a daring rescue, show how deceptive looks can be.

Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, Italy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Emperor’s New Clothes

By Book Importer | Published: June 9, 2011

In this version of Andersen’s tale by John A. Rowe, the emperor loves shopping and new clothes, but he is still tricked by two rascals.

Descriptors: Denmark, Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Revolver

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig’s [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Candle Man, Book Two: The Society of Dread

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

Dr. Saint is no more, Lord Dove has disappeared, and the Dodo has slipped back into seclusion. But for Theo Wickland, descendent of the Victorian crime fighter of legend, The Candle Man, the adventure is just beginning. Now head of the Society of Good Works, Theo is determined to turn the activities of the order [...]

Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Imagining Isabel: 9

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

The sequel to Among the Volcanoes portrays the intellectual and political transformation of a young Mayan woman who leaves her Guatemalan village to attend a special program for teachers.

Descriptors: Fiction, Guatemala, Latin America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

One Voice, Please

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

How does a money hat work? How does a stone make soup? Why doesn’t the hound catch the hare? Find the answers to all of these questions and more in this collection of short tales from past and present, near and far.

Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Northern Ireland (UK) » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

The Boy Who Dared

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he’s tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmuth’s story emerges in a series of flashbacks that [...]

Descriptors: Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Barkbelly

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

One silver-starry night, a shiny, wooden egg falls from a flying machine high in the air down, down, down through the midnight sky down to the small village of Pumbleditch, where Barkbelly is born. Where he’s the only wooden boy. And where he’s the cause of a tragic accident.Suddenly, Barkbelly’s only choice is to flee [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Sarah’s Little Ghosts

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Sarah breaks her mother’s favorite necklace, she lies to cover it up. But the lie isn’t the only thing that comes out of her mouth. A little ghost pops out, too! And for every new lie Sarah tells, another ghost appears. There seems to be only one way to get rid of them, but [...]

Descriptors: Belgium, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Book of Lies

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The newest boy at Mrs. Timmins’s Home for Orphans and Foundlings awakes at first light with no name and no memory. But a strange girl who hides among the shadows of the orphanage tells him that a mysterious wizard’s creation, the Book of Lies, holds the answers, and then gives him one clue: “Your name [...]

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